Ames' vtuber on the main screen for baldur's gate 3

hiii im back trying to win a fight that i won two weeks ago but now im doing it with style twitch.tv/callmeames

The most destructive intersection of alt text and AI isn’t that the former is being used to train the latter.

It’s that people are really excited to use AI to produce alt text, which it is generally very bad at, and expect blind folks to be grateful for it, even though it’s shit.

Sheffield Supertram Depot and New Magna Tram Stop! YouTube video by Geoff Marshall

New VIDEO! Got to go inside Nunnery Square Depot on the Sheffield Supertram, and go and visit the NEW! tram stop that's opening up soon called "Magna" ...

youtu.be/j3J_CpRda0Y

You don't necessarily need to say "image of" in your alt text for users to know it's an image. Screen readers will announce that it's an image. But it can help readers to specify if it's a hand-drawn image, Polaroid, infographic, screenshot, chart, map, diagram, or so on.

ames' vtuber on the main menu of baldur's gate 3

hii im live and actually telling u about it today twitch.tv/callmeames

Ames' face cam to the lower left hand side of the screen while in the middle is the main menu for Let's Ride! Silver Buckle stable. It's an old game with a weird aspect ratio so you can see Ames' stream background: pink striped background with green leaves in the top right and bottom left corners and cherry blossom animated lights at the top.

you want to watch me play let's ride! silver buckle stables. you want to watch me play let's ride! silver buckle stables so bad 🏇 www.twitch.tv/callmeames

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay

An image of a list of the 27 grievances against King George III in the Declaration of Independence. Donald Trump's regime has committed at least 20 of them in whole or in part, condensed into the list below: 1. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. 2. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation … 3. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing … his invasions on the rights of the people. 4. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; … obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners … 5. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice … 6. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices … 7. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. 8. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. 9. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. 10. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution … giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: 11. For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: 12. For protecting them … from punishment for any Murders which they should commit … 13. For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: 14. For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: 15. For depriving us … of the benefits of Trial by Jury: 16. For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences: 17. For … abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: 18. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. 19. He has … destroyed the lives of our people. 20. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us …

The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain.

Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow.

#NoKings

ames' vtuber over the main screen for baldur's gate 3

hiii ive worked on homework all day so i can stare at malachite all night twitch.tv/callmeames

The New Willenhall and Darlaston Stations are OPEN! YouTube video by Geoff Marshall

New Stations!

Give the Video a click --> to see the new Willenhall and Darlaston stations on the Birmingham to Shrewsbury line!

youtu.be/UJG5GZ_IvfA

But with President Trump, who has so often created uncertain situations for others to deal with while he invariably moves on, his usual streetwise cunning seems to have departed him with the attack on Iran. And so he has created a situation out of which he cannot get. Iran now has nothing to lose with choking the Strait of Hormuz. There is nothing currently which Trump can do with with either bluster or bullying to get the strait re-opened as before. And - as this is a blog about polities - the state in Iran has reconfigured. There has been regime change, but not to the United States’s advantage.

New at The Empty City

How Trump has created a situation he cannot get out of

The choking of the Strait of Hormuz and an unwanted regime change in Iran mean Trump cannot simply walk away

emptycity.substack.com/p/how-trump-...

Non-substack theemptycity.com/blog/2026/03...

The growing evidence that AI memorizes training data is leading to predictable goalpost-shifting among AI cheerleaders.

They used to say AI doesn’t memorize its training data. Now they admit it does, but that this doesn’t matter.

If it doesn’t matter, why not admit it from the start?

A billionaire can get what they want with one donation to a political party. The rest of us must fight for years to get even the most basic rights recognised. Money destroys democracy, more than any other cause. The first step towards a better world is to stop the rich buying political outcomes.

Discworld QOTD, from The Last Hero

“‘I can read and write,’ said Evil Harry. ‘Sorry. Part of the job. Etiquette, too. You’ve got to be polite to people when you march them out on the plank over the shark tank... it makes it more evil.’”

New crater just dropped. Wait. Large meteor just dropped. Then the crater.

Another stunner from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

what’s kind of incredible is that the most viewed accounts on here are… a lot of the same people if you just subtract all the red dots, plus a few folks who would appear on this chart if they still posted there

text-based social media genuinely isn’t that big anymore

Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content “In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”

NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.

Ames' facecam over the main meny for baldur's gate 3. They are wearing a bluey sweatshirt.

hi im blowing off malachite --- i mean some steam ☁️ twitch.tv/callmeames

Ames' vtuber over a screenshot of a bedroom from the sims 4. there are the super sweet bot overlays to the left.

hiii im doing homework :( and maybe bg3 later if i dont get too angy twitch.tv/callmeames

ames' vtuber over the main menu for baldurs gate 3

hiii its me twitch.tv/callmeames

A screenshot of the Stardew Valley menu. In the top left corner is Jay. they're wearing a hot pink tank top with a light pink sports bra underneath.

oh shit we're back on the farm? let's gooo. I'm live NOW with more stardew at www.twitch.tv/jupiterscorner, come hang out <3

Ames' vtuber over the main menu for baldur's gate 3

hi its wimdy and malachite is here (enter joke about blowing him here) twitch.tv/callmeames

Terry Pratchett in a blue jacket and Akubra hat holding a young owl for release.

Eleven years since you crossed the black sands. I wish I could say that the world is better than you left it (although it will always be better for having had you in it) but at least there is a new Young Sam to help carry on the Pratchett name and ethos. Love you always ❤️

What if we paid humans for their labor for sign language interpretation and CART captioning? I think it’s really cool when people can exchange their skills for money so they can afford shelter, food, clothing, healthcare, hobbies, etc.

ames' facecam over the main menu for baldur's gate 3

ummm hiii... it's me... (and malachite).... 👉👈 twitch.tv/callmeames

I don't want to read a book written by AI.
I don't want to read a book half written by AI.
I don't want to read a book narrated by AI.
I don't want to read a book with an AI cover.
I don't want to read a book written by somebody who supports AI.

Ames' vtuber on the main screen of baldur's gate 3

what a perfect day to celebrate our loverboy (malachite) twitch.tv/callmeames

Bezos burning the Washington post to the ground is as firm a reason for the continued bbc licence as ever there was. Eventually everything that can be owned by a billionaire will be owned by a billionaire and at that point its future will be determined by the whims of a man making 166k per minute.

Ames' vtuber over the main menu for baldurs gate 3

just a girl and her emotional support murderer twitch.tv/callmeames